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war for the soul of a nation We fight for the future of our Destroy the corrupt government Trying to cultural assassination
[Killer Crip niggas, nigga, eses, Asians Why the we warring with each others population? The devil dead all our population in Folk nation, why the separation? Why we got Jamaicans on Haitians When the British and French both nations? Mexicans and Blacks each other, straight hating While the government profits from prison If you on the bottom, be you or Asian You gotta the realness of what Im sayin You gotta recognize another G the enemy When the ride to kill us frequently We make the youth see, where the truth be If you a G, then and develop GD 50 years of gangs and our people still If we really run the streets, we should end war
[Chorus: D] war for the soul of a nation This is a struggle to save overthrowing the occupation The of mental colonization
Civil war for the of a nation We fight for the future of our the corrupt government organizations Trying to survive assassination
Ali] Listen, our hearts were torn apart just like was Watching towers full of souls to sawdust Everytime we your office you ignored us Now you holding on us all inside a Congress Microscopes on us, ask if were My was in line with all of the Founding Fathers I think Patrick said it best; me liberty or death I shall never anything less You claim innocence, you play But you gave the of death in the name of self defense Slavery and theft have the nations to the end Of your citizenry with excess We believe in freedom, justice, But only pure when theyre applied universally So certainly if I against the machine My aim was only to the germs out of the circuitry you need putting fear inside your heart Make you burn Qurans and tell me not to build a Me, my wife and babies we aint never jihad We just want to our heads to the floor and talk to God Ask him to remove every from my heart The greatest threat of doesnt come from any bomb The you refuse the human rights of just a few What happens when that few you? war